New Releases

[Brian]

I got an email yesterday that Amazon estimates it will ship the Orpheus Chamber Orchestra set at the end of September or beginning of October, even though the release date is August 20th.

Uh oh. When did you order yours? They let me know a few days ago that my delivery estimate is August 20.

[Roasted Swan]

Heads up Holst fans...coming in September:

There is a different complete BBC broadcast on YouTube with Vernon Handley conducting....

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=39Y6DawaYOo

the sound is very good!

[JBS]

Uh oh. When did you order yours? They let me know a few days ago that my delivery estimate is August 20.

June 24. IIRC almost right after you posted your order here.

[Brian]

June 24. IIRC almost right after you posted your order here.

Yep, just checked - order placed June 23. Hope they sort yours out.

[Mandryka]

https://www.prestomusic.com/classical/products/8917828--multi-tonal-madrigals-by-michelangelo-rossi

This is one for deprofundis, it is more chromatic than Gesualdo. They use a microtanal keyboard, an Arciorgano

http://www.voxhumanajournal.com/keller2018.html

I've only ever heard one thing by Rossi, a toccata which Andrea Marcon plays. I'm going to have to explore his music some more now. I see that Vartolo and Cera have made CDs.


Taster here

https://www.youtube.com/v/fd8ZyqYrBdY&ab_channel=VariousArtists-Topic

[Karl Henning]

Uh oh. When did you order yours? They let me know a few days ago that my delivery estimate is August 20.

Likewise, which has me wondering, will the delivery be on the release date?

[T. D.]

https://www.prestomusic.com/classical/products/8917828--multi-tonal-madrigals-by-michelangelo-rossi

This is one for deprofundis, it is more chromatic than Gesualdo. They use a microtanal keyboard, an Arciorgano

http://www.voxhumanajournal.com/keller2018.html

I've only ever heard one thing by Rossi, a toccata which Andrea Marcon plays. I'm going to have to explore his music some more now. I see that Vartolo and Cera have made CDs.


Taster here

https://www.youtube.com/v/fd8ZyqYrBdY&ab_channel=VariousArtists-Topic

Thanks, this looks interesting.

[Mirror Image]

There is a different complete BBC broadcast on YouTube with Vernon Handley conducting....

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=39Y6DawaYOo

the sound is very good!

Thanks. I'll have to check this out at some juncture.

[Selig]

I've only ever heard one thing by Rossi, a toccata which Andrea Marcon plays. I'm going to have to explore his music some more now. I see that Vartolo and Cera have made CDs.

"La poesia cromatica" by Huelgas/Van Nevel has a good handful of madrigals in common with this new one. Could be interesting to compare.

[JBS]

Announced via a tweet from AT for October release

https://www.warnerclassics.com/release/schubert

[vandermolen]

Heads up Holst fans...coming in September:

Most interesting although I think that the plot is supposed to be incomprehensible! Love the ballet music though.

[Mandryka]

http://anothertimbre.com/?amt=15.00&cc=GBP&st=Completed&tx=9V910402GK429983V

https://anothertimbre.bandcamp.com/album/number-pieces

A 4-disc box-set with Apartment House playing all of John Cage's 'number pieces' for mid-size ensembles (from 'Five' to 'Fourteen', with 'Four5' as an added extra, along with alternative versions of three of the pieces). These extraordinarily beautiful works were all composed in the last 5 years of the composer's life, as Cage approached his 80th birthday. These recordings by Apartment House are the first recordings for 15 years of almost all of the pieces. An essential release of wonderful but somewhat neglected music.
Downloads include a pdf of the 44-page booklet with extensive notes about Cage's number pieces, and the cover artwork

[akebergv]

On August 20, Carus will release a Complete Edition of their Schütz series, consisting of 28 CDs. At present is seems to be available through jpc (https://www.jpc.de/jpcng/classic/detail/-/art/heinrich-schuetz-das-gesamtwerk/hnum/10660780).

[T. D.]

http://anothertimbre.com/?amt=15.00&cc=GBP&st=Completed&tx=9V910402GK429983V

https://anothertimbre.bandcamp.com/album/number-pieces

Thanks!
Damn, this is really appealing...but two question marks:

1) From the liner notes,

Covid-19

The box set was produced in the year of the plague, between August 2020 and May 2021. This inevitably created difficulties. Because of Covid restrictions and quarantine regulations, we weren't able to record every piece as if 'live'. In a few of the pieces one or two parts had to be recorded separately and edited in in post-production. This wasn't ideal, and I would never have chosen it as a way of working, but it was unavoidable. However, in just a couple cases the process of constructing the piece through combining tracks that had been recorded separately actually opened up the music in interesting ways, enabling us to focus right in on details of the score, and it has arguably improved the end product.

I'm aesthetically opposed to overdubbing of number piece recordings, though I recognize that it's been done many times by other musicians. I'll forgive it here, considering the circumstances and because I like another timbre and Apartment House.

2) I already have recordings of many of the included number pieces. Inclined to say "most", but will have to comb through inventory. I know I have more than one recording of several.  This is a more significant barrier to purchase.    Granted, the inclusion of four realizations of Five argues against this objection. 

[Mandryka]

This could be in music with flexible time brackets, which were designed I think to encourage spontaneous performance. But still, the proof of the pudding is in the eating! If you're going to purchase it may be better to buy the CDs and get the booklet rather than do the bandcamp download.

[Mirror Image]

Most interesting although I think that the plot is supposed to be incomprehensible! Love the ballet music though.

The ballet music is quite wonderful, indeed.

[T. D.]

This could be in music with flexible time brackets, which were designed I think to encourage spontaneous performance. But still, the proof of the pudding is in the eating! If you're going to purchase it may be better to buy the CDs and get the booklet rather than do the bandcamp download.

Looking briefly at my collection, the only pieces on this Apartment House set [Cage number pieces box] not already represented are 7^2, Six and 4^5. No doubt interpretations can vary widely, but at this point there's too much duplication to justify spending the money. Pity. I've bookmarked the page for future reference...

[Karl Henning]

Most interesting although I think that the plot is supposed to be incomprehensible! Love the ballet music though.

That's my feeling about the Ring 

[amw]

I'd prefer to have a new integral set of the number pieces for large ensembles (from 14 to 108) but guess at this time, such things aren't really very plausible.

[T. D.]

I'd prefer to have a new integral set of the number pieces for large ensembles (from 14 to 108) but guess at this time, such things aren't really very plausible.

+1!